The potential risks that are involved when organisations implant a new IT system are

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Craig Waters                     Task 3 - Risks

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The potential risks that are involved when organisations implant a new IT system are electric shock, loss of data, compatibility issues, loss of services, security and computer crashes.

The company can offset the potential risks involved in implementing new information technology by having electrical equipments tested by an election, backing up all electronic data and store backups in a fireproof safe.

Having a contingency plan in place helps business, governments and councils in case of something going wrong then it can help to recover from serious incidents reducing the time spent on resolving the issues or problems with minimum costs and disruptions.  

Employing IT Specialist to be on hand encase of an emergency, will also pick the company back up.

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High level security measures both electronically and physically can help prevent and mishaps and systems loss of data. There are so many ways that you can protect and help maintain a computer system, a few of these would be virus protection, schedule scan, clean- up tools, disk defrag, firewall, back up regularly on a regular basis.

Physically measures can be a number of things a few of this are  CRB check on every employee, every year, health and safety procedures, employees know where the point of call is encase of a fire.

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